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04.11.2024 - Rare Amiga Arcade Inspection and Repairs | Trash to Treasure (Pt2) - video by 'RMC'
We met the Arcadia Super Select System in part one of the series, now it's time to inspect and test it. Does it work? And what on earth are we going to put this in?

04.11.2024 - C64 Weekly #9 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description

03.11.2024 - C64s with 7 dead RAM chips and a reset circuit mystery! - video by 'retrobits'
Two more dead Commodore C64s from the bin-o’-mystery with unusual failures plus a deep dive into the reset circuit / 555 timer!

02.11.2024 - Video: Extreme Violence 2 WIP v0.3 - AmiGameJam2024 - Amiga Game Development - A500
More footage of 'Extreme Violence' , a game in the making for the AmiGameJam 2024. The game was originally a two player public domain game made by Simon Green in 1991. Developer PixelPlop decided to try to make a sequel that supports up to 4 players.

02.11.2024 - Amiga game 'La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros' released
'La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros' (Night of the Little Wraiths) is a platformer game for the Amiga 500 where you must gather all the little ghosts before dawn dissipates the magical energy of Halloween and your fragments are lost forever. If you don't find them, you will disappear into oblivion! You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.11.2024 - C64 game 'Woodris' released - free for download
'Woodris' is a Tetris style game for the C64, which was made for the Zoo 2024 Game compo.

31.10.2024 - C64 game 'The Last Z-8' released - free for download
Damn you...damn you all to hell… New York, London, Paris, Munich… you blew it all up! The bad guys won and the world is now a wasteland. But maybe all is not lost. You are the last secret agent with the last Z-8 time machine. The city is riddled ghosts and the time door won’t open before you have accumulated a major zonk overload... Made for the Zoo 2024 Game compo.

31.10.2024 - C64 game 'Kingdom of the Seven Stones' released
'Kingdom of the Seven Stones' is a huge graphic/text adventure for C64, released in cartridge format needing 1MB MagicDesk2 cartridge support, like Kung Fu Flash. Purchasing is required to play. For those whom are able, please consider purchasing this game right from the start in physical format from The Future Was 8 Bit.

30.10.2024 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - October 2024 update
Its now getting cold, but the database updates are still coming - and quite a few this month in the Commodore 64 archive including 22 new entries added plus 46 entries updated.

30.10.2024 - C64 game 'Mach Baron' released - free for download
'Mach Baron' is a frantic horizontal arcade game, in the purest Run'n'Gun style and full of mechas and robots. You will have to eliminate the mechanical robots created by Dr. Rallerstein and that have been sent with the intention to finish with us and dominate the world. To avoid this, you must complete 3 stages to finally destroy the final boss

30.10.2024 - Video: Amiga - Pumpkin
This video shows gameplay footage of 'Pumpkin', the just released Pac-man clone, which is available at itch.io.

30.10.2024 - Amiga game 'Pumpkin' released
'Pumpkin' is a 2024 Halloween edition of the classic Pac-man game for the Amiga (System req.: 1Mb Chip-Ram). You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.10.2024 - C64 game 'Ghost Player 2024' released - free for download
Ghosts are escaping from their four colored traps (A, B, C, D) ... Try to catch them by listening to the spooky escape sounds and repeating the created tunes.

29.10.2024 - C64 game 'Kuusneppis' - Preview version 2 released
Kuusneppis is a multiplayer one-button-controlled game for a maximum of 6 players. Note: Four players use the keyboard, and two players use joysticks. Target was to make a game that gathers as many players around one C64 as possible. This preview version was created for the Zoo 2024 Game Dev Competition.

29.10.2024 - Video: 'Dungeonette - The New Adventure' (Amiga AGA)
'Dungeonette - The New Adventure' is coming dungeon crawler for Amiga (AGA). You play as a brave hero on a quest to enter the Dungeons of Doom and slay the Dark Lord. With your trusty weapons, armour and shield, you must navigate the maze of dungeons ahead and vanquish your foes. Collect bonus weapons, spells, treasures and find food to keep you from starving. The Dark Lord has sent hordes of monsters to stop you!